Paleo Food List

This paleo food list will help you to identify exactly what foods are allowed on a paleo diet and which are not.

One of the things you will notice in a paleolithic diet, or caveman diet as it is often called, is that people don’t always agree about what should be considered “paleo”. What foods existed more than 10,000 years ago?

This paleo food list is as extensive as I could get it. I researched many “experts” and put their suggestions together here. One thing that you will notice is that a couple of foods are on both the “okay to eat” and the “not okay to eat” lists. That is because of the discrepancy among followers of the plans.

Many authors and followers also use a paleo diet as a weight loss diet, rather than simply a healthy eating plan. For that reason, they exclude foods like white potatoes, sweet potatoes, squashes and yams. Others include some of them. What to do? Read our page on the paleo diet to see what it is about, then choose for yourself the healthiest foods on our Okay to Eat Paleo Food List.

Good to Eat Paleo Food List

Vegetables

Arugula

Asparagus

Artichokes

Beets (no on some paleo food lists)

Beet tops

Bok choy

Broccoli

Brussels sprouts

Cauliflower

Cabbage

Cassava

Carrots

Celery

Celeriac

Collard greens

Cucumber

Dandelion

Eggplant

Endive

Fennel

Garlic (not really a vegetable but listed here)

Green beans (Some versions of the diet say no)

Jerusalem artichokes

Kale

Kohlrabi

Leeks

Lettuce of all kinds including romaine, butter lettuce and iceberg (which has little nutritional value)

Drinks

All soft drinks, including Coke and Pepsi, Sprite, Orange Crush and Mountain Dew

Fruit Juices (unless they are freshly juiced) including apple, orange, grape and mango

All engery drinks such as Red Bull, Monster, Rockstar and Vault

Alcohol including:

Beer

Gin

Rum

Tequila

Vodka

Whiskey

Alcoholic Mixers and prepared drinks

Sugar

All sugars and anything containing sugar is a NO on paleo diets. That means all candy and candy bars, cookies, cakes, pies and pretty much any other dessert we love. (You can find some pretty amazing paleo dessert recipes around though.)